Category Archives: The Voting Wars
“Holder Urges States to Repeal Bans on Felons’ Voting”
NYT reports. MORE from HuffPo’s Ryan J. Reilly.
“The Unsavory Case Against Early Voting”
Ed Kilgore reflects on my @Slate column.
“Ohio set to pass tough new round of voting restrictions”
“Montana GOP looks to end same-day voter registration”
MSNBC: “A GOP-backed bill passed last year by state legislators would let Montanans vote this November on whether to end same-day registration. On Wednesday, the state’s Supreme Court ruled against a challenge to the legislation from labor and voting… Continue reading
“The New Conservative Assault on Early Voting”
I have written this new Slate piece, which begins: “It is easy to dismiss the latest conservative rants against early voting as just one more way for Republicans to try to gain advantage over Democrats at the polls. But… Continue reading
“Holder v. Roberts: The Attorney General Makes Voting Rights the Test Case of His Tenure”
Jeffrey Toobin writes for The New Yorker. The full extensive piece is behind the paywall. Toobin’s take is similar to mine about the North Carolina and Texas cases (which Holder predicts the U.S. will win):
When Worlds Collide: Election Administration Edition
As previously noted, the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration is going to hear from Mr. Bauer and Mr. Ginsberg on Feb. 12 at 10 am about the recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration.
But now on… Continue reading
RNLA Praises One Aspect of Bauer-Ginsberg Report, While Bashing “the Radical Left and Many in the Democrat Party”
The Voting Wars Come to Canada
“New Analysis: Trends Shift Sharply to Expand Voting Access”
Brennan Center:
Hundreds of bills to improve access to the polls have been introduced leading up to the 2014 election, in sharp contrast to the spate of restrictive laws introduced before 2012, according to a new analysis issued today… Continue reading
“Eight reasons for halting early voting”
J. Christian Adams Wash. Times oped.
“Party Predictions Differ in Texas on Impact of New Voter ID Law”
George Will Bemoans Early Voting
WaPo column:
Sink will benefit from the national trend allowing early voting to obliterate Election Day. Any Floridian who has ever requested an absentee ballot henceforth gets one automatically. Seventy-seven percent of the Republican primary votes here were cast… Continue reading